by on October 26, 2009 Leave a Comment

How to remove the Dashboard from the Dock

Your Dock is premium real estate on your Mac OSX Desktop. You should generally keep applications that you use everyday in your Dock for quick access.

The Dock comes configured with a few applications including the Dashboard. The Dashboard is already accessible via a shortcut key so placing it in the Dock might seem wasteful to some people. You can remove the Dashboad from the Dock by either control clicking the icon or by right clicking the icon and selecting remove from dock. This doesn’t disable the Dashboard, it just removes it from the Dock, to free up more space. Check out the demonstration video.

by on September 12, 2009 Leave a Comment

Change the size and position of the Dock

The Mac application launcher or the Dock lives at the bottom of your screen but it doesn’t have to stay there. In this video tutorial, we’ll show you how to put the Dock where you want it.

by on September 11, 2009 2 Comments

Restore your Dock to its Defaults

Glass Dock
Creative Commons License photo credit: zoovrooWhen a new user is created in OSX, the Dock is prepopulated with a set of icons. Dragging the icons off the dock removes them. You are free to customize the Dock by placing your frequently used icons there.

There may be an occasion where you need to restore the Dock to it’s default set of application icons. This is pretty easy with a bit of Terminal-fu.

Open the Terminal application by Navigating through Go->Utilities->Terminal

When the terminal window opens type

cd ~/Library/Preferences
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist

This will delete the configuration file for the dock. Log out and back in and the Dock should look the way it did when you first created your user account.
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If you have any other interesting Mac tricks, let us know.

by on June 21, 2008 Leave a Comment

Configure the Dock

The Dock is the application launcher provided by the Finder.

The Finder generally sits at the bottom of the screen. However, it doesn’t have to remain there. The Dock can be configured to display on the left or right sides of the screen. It can also be animated to provide feedback when something happens.

This can happen easily by using the System Preferences application. The following video demonstrates how to make the Dock behave the way you want it to.

Note, this post is updated, watch the new version of it here.

by on June 8, 2008 Leave a Comment

Starting programs when you login to your account

Today’s tutorial discusses how to specify certain programs to run when you login to your OSX account. If the first thing you do when you login everyday is check your email, why not save a step and have your email program startup automatically for you when you login.

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